I guess nobody else noticed the bonus random power poles stuck directly in the roadway around the house, which also appear to have a clearance of, oh, 8 or 9 feet at most. Surely nothing bad will happen as a result of this well-thought-out-plan.

Also, having driven on my fair share of Chinese highways, I expect the timeline will go something like this:

8:00 AM Highway officially opens to traffic

8:00:34 AM Chinese driver fails to notice 5-story building in his path, plows through the entire ground floor

schief2:I guess nobody else noticed the bonus random power poles stuck directly in the roadway around the house, which also appear to have a clearance of, oh, 8 or 9 feet at most. Surely nothing bad will happen as a result of this well-thought-out-plan.

Also, having driven on my fair share of Chinese highways, I expect the timeline will go something like this:

8:00 AM Highway officially opens to traffic

8:00:34 AM Chinese driver fails to notice 5-story building in his path, plows through the entire ground floor

Bucky Katt:I'm surprised the Chinese govt was so nice about the whole thing.

For a country that sometimes seems to ignore the rule of law, they can sometimes be surprisingly strict in adhering to due process and individual rights when it comes to land. They may give zero farks what happens 1 inch beyond the boundaries of your domain, but they won't always strong-arm you out of it either - they'll just encourage you to "self-deport", as it were.

Also yeah it's a big house, but my friend who lived over there implied it wasn't that unusual for at least the wealthier families to have 3+ story houses, I think because of multiple generations all living together. She even lived in one for a couple of years.

She came back home after she realized finally she was a trophy wife and her 'husband' was an ass. Only took two years of me telling her that /sigh

Suede head:Heh. In the Land of the Free those people would have been forced to move out, manhandled by the cops and maybe even shot.

This. Kind of makes me wonder if china is really all that bad. We have many comparable flaws, such as massive corruption, low paying jobs, etc. we haveless censorship but you can bet there would be more if the government or corporations could get away with it

log_jammin:china confuses me. a Communist country that welcomes companies that make the western worlds shiat, and people can own their own house.

The state of the art in eminent domain, at least here in the Usa province of China, is to have the court order the taking of the property and direct that the owners be given its fair market value plus relocation costs. If the owners don't agree on the value, they can have their day in court to prove what it's worth, but the property is being taken regardless.

This is the exception to the rule. Either this family had public support, or old revolutionary connections, or bribed someone, or is in a province that generally isn't horrendously corrupt. Usually, local party officials will send paid thugs to drag you out of your home and tear it down in the same night, although sometimes villagers with no power or connections will set themselves on fire to protest planned demolitions.

Make no mistake, China is a rapidly developing place, but it is totally corrupt, almost from top to bottom. Even the lowest public employees take bribes to do routine paperwork, or to admit children to school. Local party officials rule almost like gods and both embezzle and extort money from the people in their districts, and it all funnels it way to the top.

China is an amazing place to live, but a vast majority of Chinese people will take bribes, construct vast webs of personal connections, and sooner spit on you than help you on the bus. conspicious consumption is the name of the game here, and the shadowy, illegal dealings in growth industries like construction makes the Mafia look like kindergartners.

Kuroutesshin:This is the exception to the rule. Either this family had public support, or old revolutionary connections, or bribed someone, or is in a province that generally isn't horrendously corrupt. Usually, local party officials will send paid thugs to drag you out of your home and tear it down in the same night, although sometimes villagers with no power or connections will set themselves on fire to protest planned demolitions.

Make no mistake, China is a rapidly developing place, but it is totally corrupt, almost from top to bottom. Even the lowest public employees take bribes to do routine paperwork, or to admit children to school. Local party officials rule almost like gods and both embezzle and extort money from the people in their districts, and it all funnels it way to the top.

China is an amazing place to live, but a vast majority of Chinese people will take bribes, construct vast webs of personal connections, and sooner spit on you than help you on the bus. conspicious consumption is the name of the game here, and the shadowy, illegal dealings in growth industries like construction makes the Mafia look like kindergartners.

Sounds like a society that operates entirely on the venture of making more money, like, capitalism. So what does that make the usa?

Kuroutesshin:This is the exception to the rule. Either this family had public support, or old revolutionary connections, or bribed someone, or is in a province that generally isn't horrendously corrupt. Usually, local party officials will send paid thugs to drag you out of your home and tear it down in the same night, although sometimes villagers with no power or connections will set themselves on fire to protest planned demolitions.

Make no mistake, China is a rapidly developing place, but it is totally corrupt, almost from top to bottom. Even the lowest public employees take bribes to do routine paperwork, or to admit children to school. Local party officials rule almost like gods and both embezzle and extort money from the people in their districts, and it all funnels it way to the top.

China is an amazing place to live, but a vast majority of Chinese people will take bribes, construct vast webs of personal connections, and sooner spit on you than help you on the bus. conspicious consumption is the name of the game here, and the shadowy, illegal dealings in growth industries like construction makes the Mafia look like kindergartners.

Sounds like a society that operates entirely on the venture of making more money, like, capitalism. So what does that make the usa?

China isn't communist, it's an authoritarian crony capitalist state that uses the guise of socialism to maintain one-party rule. The US also has the benefit of not having gone through almost 100 years of total social destabilisation and the near-destruction of traditional culture in the last 40. the US is a mixed-economic, but compared to the Chinese we're fastidious where it comes to corruption in our officials- probably because we have a direct say in how we choose them. In China you almost have to be a corrupt, womanizing automaton to get ahead in government.

I guess it's ironic that Chinese students still take mandatory classes in Mao Zedong thought while their government engages in the same kind of totalitarian kleptocracy they decried in the Kuomintang. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics indeed.

Sounds like a society that operates entirely on the venture of making more money, like, capitalism. So what does that make the usa?

China isn't communist, it's an authoritarian crony capitalist state that uses the guise of socialism to maintain one-party rule. The US also has the benefit of not having gone through almost 100 years of total social destabilisation and the near-destruction of traditional culture in the last 40. the US is a mixed-economic, but compared to the Chinese we're fastidious where it comes to corruption in our officials- probably because we have a direct say in how we choose them. In China you almost have to be a corrupt, womanizing automaton to get ahead in government.

I guess it's ironic that Chinese students still take mandatory classes in Mao Zedong thought while their government engages in the same kind of totalitarian kleptocracy they decried in the Kuomintang. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics indeed.

Don't forget there's putting lead in toys, and melamine in pet food and baby milk. And they execute their citizens for tax evasion. What a utopia!

Sounds like a society that operates entirely on the venture of making more money, like, capitalism. So what does that make the usa?

China isn't communist, it's an authoritarian crony capitalist state that uses the guise of socialism to maintain one-party rule. The US also has the benefit of not having gone through almost 100 years of total social destabilisation and the near-destruction of traditional culture in the last 40. the US is a mixed-economic, but compared to the Chinese we're fastidious where it comes to corruption in our officials- probably because we have a direct say in how we choose them. In China you almost have to be a corrupt, womanizing automaton to get ahead in government.

I guess it's ironic that Chinese students still take mandatory classes in Mao Zedong thought while their government engages in the same kind of totalitarian kleptocracy they decried in the Kuomintang. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics indeed.

Sounds like a society that operates entirely on the venture of making more money, like, capitalism. So what does that make the usa?

China isn't communist, it's an authoritarian crony capitalist state that uses the guise of socialism to maintain one-party rule. The US also has the benefit of not having gone through almost 100 years of total social destabilisation and the near-destruction of traditional culture in the last 40. the US is a mixed-economic, but compared to the Chinese we're fastidious where it comes to corruption in our officials- probably because we have a direct say in how we choose them. In China you almost have to be a corrupt, womanizing automaton to get ahead in government.

I guess it's ironic that Chinese students still take mandatory classes in Mao Zedong thought while their government engages in the same kind of totalitarian kleptocracy they decried in the Kuomintang. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics indeed.

Don't forget there's putting lead in toys, and melamine in pet food and baby milk. And they execute their citizens for tax evasion. What a utopia!

Sounds like a society that operates entirely on the venture of making more money, like, capitalism. So what does that make the usa?

China isn't communist, it's an authoritarian crony capitalist state that uses the guise of socialism to maintain one-party rule. The US also has the benefit of not having gone through almost 100 years of total social destabilisation and the near-destruction of traditional culture in the last 40. the US is a mixed-economic, but compared to the Chinese we're fastidious where it comes to corruption in our officials- probably because we have a direct say in how we choose them. In China you almost have to be a corrupt, womanizing automaton to get ahead in government.

I guess it's ironic that Chinese students still take mandatory classes in Mao Zedong thought while their government engages in the same kind of totalitarian kleptocracy they decried in the Kuomintang. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics indeed.

Don't forget there's putting lead in toys, and melamine in pet food and baby milk. And they execute their citizens for tax evasion. What a utopia!

I forget how many peanut butter, tomato, and other such contaminations the us has. And dont forget the recent spinal injecting thing with those patients who died from that fungus. What a utopia!